Luba Skořepová

Acting

Luba Skořepová

Born 1923-09-21 · Náchod, Czechoslovakia

Luba Skořepová, her own name Libuše Skořepová, (* September 21, 1923, Náchod - † 23 December 2016, Prague) was a Czech actress, writer, playwright, long-time member of the National Theater in Prague. Her first name, Libuše, was often truncated to "Ljuba", which made the nickname "Luba". From 1942 to 1944 she studied acting at the Prague Conservatory. After the liberation, she worked in the Jindřich Honzla Young and in the ND Study (1945-1948). After his extinction in 1948 he became a member of the National Theater drama. His last performance on the National Theater Plays took place on June 18, 2014 at the Gogoles Revolution. During the sixty-six years of acting in the local ensemble she performed 140 roles. In addition to the National Theater, in the theaters Metro, Ypsilon, Rubin, Řeznická, in the Municipal Theaters of Prague and others. Her first husband was actor Josef Pehr, second writer Pavel Hanuš (1928 - 1991). But Skořepová remained free. (Wikipedia)

Acting credits

The Immortal Woman poster
5.9

The filmed fairy-tale is a comedy based on the classical story about Reason and Happiness. This enchanting couple is ever debating on which of the two is more important for mankind, their encounters are watched by the third fairy-tale figure aunt Envy. A story of true love that wins over the evil powers of immortal human envy.

The Immortal Woman

1993

House Call poster
8.5

Third movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu

House Call

1979

I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen poster
5.9

This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The decision is made to travel back in time and murder Einstein, with the hopeful result being that without the noted mathematician's research there will be no atomic bombs.

I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen

1970

Silent Barricade poster
7.0

A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.

Silent Barricade

1949

Night of Orange Fires poster
8.0

Petr Rynes (Svatopluk Matyás) is celebrating his forty-fifth birthday in the company of his friends. He is happy with his wife, and his abilities at work have been rewarded with the medal For Outstanding Work. But a few short seconds are enough to change his life when he makes the ill-judged decision to take his car to bring a friend's wife to the celebration, and hits a pedestrian on the way. He has of course been drinking at the party and is consequently sentenced to sixteen months in prison. Being in jail is not an easy thing for a honorable communist. He soon gets into conflict with several violent inmates, who think they can break his spirit by violence.

Night of Orange Fires

1975

On the Great River poster
8.0

Second movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu

On the Great River

1978

Out of the City poster
5.7

A computer programmer and his son are going out of the city for vacation.

Out of the City

2000

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Naši furianti

1955

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NR

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Pozůstalost

1993

Jacob poster
9.0

The 11-year old Jakub is living in a children's home, when he is picked up by his father. The father has been "away" for four years, the boys mother doesn't want the child. Jakub gradually finds out, that his father is hiding a secret from him. But they gradually manage to build a warm relationship and a promising new life in the city.

Jacob

1977

The Day That Shook the World poster
6.1

An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914.

The Day That Shook the World

1975

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Samota

1955

Inseparable Five poster
7.0

A funny movie about life and adventures of the five inseparable friends from little town in south Czech republic.

Inseparable Five

1987

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Stalo se jedné neděle

1985

Too Loud A Solitude poster
8.0

An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric scenarios of wit.

Too Loud A Solitude

1995

Alone poster
NR

Alone is about the 91-year-old actress and writer Luba Skořepová, who used to be a member of Czech National Theatre group for almost 70 years. She still wants to work but for many people she is too old. So she tries to manage her last play from her small apartment by a cell phone. The film is about hope and about hopelessness of faded glory.

Alone

2017

Princess Goldilocks poster
6.8

A princess was so beautiful and had such golden hair that she was known as Pretty Goldilocks. A neighboring king fell in love with her from her description, but much to the king's disappointment, she rejected his ambassador, saying she had no wish to be married...

Princess Goldilocks

1973

Sto dukátů za Juana poster
NR

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Sto dukátů za Juana

1971

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Honza, the son of a poor cottage woman, sets out into the world one day to escape the royal recruiters. On his journey, he meets a magical herbalist, and from that moment on, his numerous adventures begin. Thanks to a magical violin, he frees a magical mill from devils, outwits a fearsome dragon, and with the help of enchanted cherries, he also defeats a treacherous king and his proud and deceitful daughter. In the end, Honza returns home with a bride after all—the kind and sincere princess's maid Madlenka, who helped him escape from the royal dungeon.

Český Honza

2007

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4.8

The short story film based on the book of the same name by Karel Pecka depicts the atmosphere of the Lesser Town in the 1980s.

Malostranské humoresky

1996

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NR

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Záhada na sobotní dopoledne

1984

40 let s Chalupáři poster
7.5

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40 let s Chalupáři

2015

Tři nevinní poster
6.5

The car thief Halama, the shy groom Poupě, the divorcing jealous Pic and the mustachioed cinema projectionist Vlk are suspected of robbing the cinema box office. They are so similar, however, that the sharp-witted Public Security investigator Doll doesn't know them at all...

Tři nevinní

1974

Higher Principle poster
8.2

During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.

Higher Principle

1960